The History of Atari

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The History of Atari Atari was founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell.Atari created arcade games, home game consolesand home computers. Some games created byAtari were Pong and Asteroids. It created consoleslike the Atari 2600, 5200 and the Lynx. The first game Atari released was the Arcade game Pong. It was like a soccertype game were you move around a line so the ball won't get into the goal. You versus the computer or AI ( ArtificalIntelligance). It was a very popular game back then. In 1976 Atari was able to create a gameconsole and the result was the Atari 2600.It was one of the first video game consolesever created. The 2600's nickname wasthe VCA ( Video Computer System). It hadquite a few games released for it includingPong, Asteroids and the favourite was Yar'sRevenge. The console plugs in your TV andwas in Black & White or you could have it in Colour. You could even play multiplayer. The Atari 2600's most popular gamewas Yar's Revenge. Not many people know this game but it dosen'thave a story or cheap. You find yourselfshooting a ship using a line thing. The game has appeared on almost every consoleincluding the Virtual Console on the Wii. In 1982 Atari released its newgame console called the Atari5200. It was large and couldhave up to 4 players. The graphicswere much better in games like Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Yar'sRevenge. It wasn't poular becauseit was big and it didn't have a goodcontroller. It was a complete fail.Atari didn't do as well as before because of the 5200. In 1985 Nintendo released the NES(Nintendo Entertainment System).In 1986 Atari released the Atari 7800.The 7800 went up against the NES.Unfortunately Atari looked like it wasgoing to go out of buisness becauseof Nintendo. Atari's 7800 played 2600games aswell. It wasn't recived welllike people say something like "Atariis History, Nintendo is the way of theFuture". After the Atari 7800 it looked like Atarihad become history. In early 1989 Nintendo they released the Gameboy.Later that year, Atari released the AtariLynx. A portable Game console thathad a colour LCD screen. It ran on 6batteries for 4 hours. It could hook up to16 other Lynx's. The console was quite large so the Lynx lost the battle againstthe Gamboy so it wasn't bought thatmuch. After the 80's, Atari was still in buisness.Nintendo released the SNES, Sega created the Sega Master System/Ganesisand Atari made another console which was the Atari Jaguar. It plugged into aTV like the 2600 and 5200 and 7800.It had many games but didn't have a long lifelike the other console. This was the last game console that Atari had created. Atari is stillin buisness and releasing games for PC, PS3and Xbox 360. Atari released games for PS2,Gameboy Advance, Xbox, Gamecube andthe DS. Atari was a great company in the 70'sand now it is not as well known. Atari willnever release another game console but I willmiss them.